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Author Archives: Francis Young

The Witch of Loddon and Changing Perceptions of Witchcraft in Victorian England

April 17, 2019by Francis Young Leave a comment

There are many stories of witchcraft in rural England from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but it is rare to find accounts of self-professed witches who actually attempted to make […]

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Animals, Early Modern, Guest Posts, Historiography, Magic, Modern, Publications, Witchcraft

Intrigue and Incantation: Treasonous Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England

August 21, 2017by Francis Young Leave a comment

Between the 1320s and the 1620s a significant proportion of all accusations of high treason in England involved a magical element. People were accused of casting the horoscope of the […]

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Early Modern, Guest Posts, Magic, Medieval, Politics, Religion, Witchcraft

Superstitious Talk: Is It Time to Move On from the ‘S-Word’?

January 23, 2017by Francis Young 1 Comment

The idea for this post began with an exchange on Twitter with the Inner Lives project – stimulated by this innocuous-sounding Tweet promoting the excellent supernatural holdings of the Museum […]

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Early Modern, Guest Posts, Historiography, Magic, Medieval, Religion, Witchcraft

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Dr Francis Young

Francis is a historian and folklorist. He is the author of twelve books, including English Catholics and the Supernatural (2013), A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity (2016), and Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England (2017).

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